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I totally agree. I don't like the feeling that comes from being babysat by code that tells me how I need to do everything. But I don't know a better way to gua
by Kalium 8y ago
I totally agree. I don't like the feeling that comes from being babysat by code that tells me how I need to do everything.
But I don't know a better way to guard against all the things I might not think of. I've seen entirely too many cases of people doing something wildly unsafe and reckless because it seemed the easiest to them at the time and their tools didn't handle things for them. Use serialized objects to communicate between systems? Why not? We have Avro schemas, those will keep us safe as we deserialize random data from the network, right?
As much as I don't like being treated like a child by a bucket of bits, I also recognize that Clojurian minimalism requires me to think of literally everything. I have to know everything that's dangerous, how it's dangerous, and how to guard against it. That feels like even more load on my brain than being babysat - and I'm a security specialist!
- tombert 8y agoThat's fair enough, I'm not really a specialist in anything since I'm (officially) unqualified for everything...I will concede that you might have a point security-wise....but I don't have to like it!